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Blanca Portillo \ Career \ Darkness \ excitement \ Fleeting Experience \ Helm \ Important Event \ Professional Experience \ Roman Theater \ spain
The unraveling of Mérida
“The darkness of the offices.” This is what most surprised Blanca Portillo during her fleeting experience as director of the Mérida Classic Theater Festival, Spain’s most important event of its type, which is staged at the magnificent Roman theater in…
actors \ All Odds \ Ariel Dorfman \ Destiny \ Elias \ Forgiveness \ Nerves \ Purgatorio \ Purgatory \ Stage Fright \ Viggo Mortensen
Viggo and Carme explore forgiveness
Not even the handsome and famous are entirely free from stage fright. On Friday, actors Carme Elias and Viggo Mortensen opened the Madrid premiere of an Ariel Dorfman play called Purgatorio (or, Purgatory). And it may be that all the…
euro \ Former President \ july 1 \ Misappropriation Of Funds \ Publishers \ Sgae \ Society Of Authors \ Unfair Dismissal
Disgraced former head of SGAE files 800,000-euro lawsuit over dismissal
Eduardo Bautista, the former president of the SGAE Society of Authors and Publishers who was arrested on July 1 as part of an investigation into misappropriation of funds, has launched an unfair dismissal suit against the entity.…
Beautiful Home \ Espadrilles \ Heart \ JoaquíN Sabina \ madrid \ paintings \ Platinum Records \ Seven Cats
"It makes me feel posthumous"
Joaquín Sabina greets EL PAÍS in espadrilles inside his beautiful home in the heart of Madrid, surrounded by seven cats who ignore him, unsettling paintings on the walls and platinum records hanging in the bathroom.…
Politics in the dressing room
The director of the Mérida International Theater Festival has resigned, saying she was put under pressure to remove a large-format photograph depicting a naked actor with a crucifix covering his private parts from an exhibition connected to the event.…